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Title: | Response of laying hens to l-arginine, l-citrulline and guanidinoacetic acid supplementation in reduced protein diet |
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Contributor(s): | Dao, Hiep Thi (author); Sharma, Nishchal K (author) ; Bradbury, Emma J (author); Swick, Robert A (author) |
Publication Date: | 2021-06 |
Early Online Version: | 2021-03-12 |
Open Access: | Yes |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.aninu.2020.09.004 |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30798 |
Abstract: | A study was conducted with Hy-Line Brown laying hens to examine the effects of reduced protein diet, deficiency of arginine (Arg), and addition of crystalline Arg, citrulline (Cit) and guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) as substitutes for Arg. Hen performance, egg quality, serum uric acid, liver and reproductive organ weights, and energy and protein digestibility were measured using a completely randomized design with 5 treatments. Treatments were a standard diet (17% protein diet; SP), a reduced diet (13% protein diet deficient in Arg; RP) and RP with added Arg (0.35%, RP-Arg), GAA (0.46% equivalent to 0.35% Arg, RP-GAA) or Cit (0.35%, RP-Cit) to the level of SP. It was hypothesized that performance would decrease with Arg deficient RP diet and the addition of GAA or Cit in RP would allow birds to perform similar or greater than Arg-added RP treatment. The experiment was conducted from 20 to 39 wk of age but the treatment effect was seen only after 29 wk of age. The birds offered RP had reduced egg and albumin weights (P < 0.01), lower yolk color score (P < 0.01), lower protein intake and excretion (P < 0.01) than those offered SP. When Arg or Cit were added to RP to make them equivalent to SP, feed intake (FI) and egg production were not different than those of RP (P > 0.05). The birds offered RP-GAA decreased FI and egg production (P < 0.01) compared to those offered RP. The addition of Arg, Cit or GAA to the RP had no effect on egg quality parameters, protein and energy digestibilities (P > 0.05). However, birds offered the RP-Cit diet tended to have higher Haugh unit (P = 0.095) and lower shell breaking strength (P = 0.088) compared to all other treatments while those offered RP-GAA had higher energy digestibility (P < 0.05) than all other groups but RP. The limited performance response of hens fed RP with added Arg, GAA, or Cit may be due to deficiency of some other nutrients in RP such as phenylalanine, potassium or non-essential amino acids and other components of soybean meal in the diet. |
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Source of Publication: | Animal Nutrition, 7(2), p. 460-471 |
Publisher: | Zhongguo Xumu Shouyi Xuehui, Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine |
Place of Publication: | China |
ISSN: | 2405-6383 2405-6545 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 300303 Animal nutrition |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 100411 Poultry |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes |
HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Environmental and Rural Science |
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